Just had an interesting discussion about mobile providers and cost so I thought I'd reach out to the community to get a better cross section so.... 4 questions Where you live? (Be as specific or unspecific as you'd like) Provider? Amount of Data you're getting? What's it cost? I'll start: Winnipeg, MB, Canada Rogers 8 gigs 60 bucks a month
I'm in England. My provider is Three I'm on unlimited data in England and most of Europe, America, Australia etc - but no thethering. It costs me £8.11 - sim only. You can't get contracts that good any more and I'm living in fear of them taking it away from me - as they did with a guy who sits next to me at work.
USA - iPhone. $30/month, Sprint, unlimited everything (3 gigs of 4G but I never use it all) Pretty sweet deal if you ask me, never had coverage problems in the Chicago area.
That's a great deal. That same plan in a different Canadian province would literally be 5x the price ...(does some CDN USD converting). 3.5x the price. I think we get screwed in Canada for Mobile pricing
Sprint has a $30/month plan? I'm paying $60 something for unlimited 4G on sprint (after all taxes and fees). I could probably get away with 3 Gb, but I do use the data a lot for music streaming and such and I think I'm over 3 GB this month with 5 or so days to go. 3 GB would be pushing it a bit, but maybe I could make do with it.
Louisville, Kentucky, US T-mobile Unlimited data on the phone, 10 gigs of fast hotspot, unlimited slow hotspot $70, taxes and fees included The recent revival of unlimited data by Verizon finally made T-mobile make this plan worth switching to. I was previously paying $70 plus taxes and fees for an old grandfathered unlimited plan which by the end of it had 5 gigs of hotspot (I wasn't complaining too much, considering my plan didn't have any hotspot data to begin with and they didn't have to add it) I can roam to other countries and get acceptable data speeds and unlimited texting, and they hand out free stuff every Tuesday. pretty nice deal. T-Mobile is the only company who keeps giving me more stuff without charging me more money. Sure wish they'd build more/better towers, though. There's still some spots in town where I don't get any data, or at least not reliable enough to play mobile games that need a connection.
Lithuania, Europe. Paying ~40$ montly, which includes unlimited SMS/calls, 6GB of 4G, Spotify subscription & paying off for a phone (I think that's 15$).
AT&T offers two upgrade plans, Next and Nexteveryyear. Its their modern 2yr(nexteveryyear) or 2 1/2yr(next) contract system. everyyear is the 24month plan that has the option to trade in the phone for a new phone at 50% paid off (12 months or sooner if you pay more than minimum monthly on the phone). the standard next is... i believe a 30 month payment plan with option to trade in for new phone every... not sure. 18 months? 20? -shrugs- NextEveryYear pretty much lets me give the phone back and get any phone in at&t's stable every 12 months or 50% paid off which ever comes sooner. Or make payments on the phone (or just pay it off anytime) for 24months and I own the phone. The next program replaced their old standard 200 dollar 2yr contract system.
UK GiffGaff 5gb £15 a month Also get unlimited calls as texts to other giffgaff users for 3 months each time you top up. Get 1000 any time minutes to other networks. Unlimited texts to other networks. Or for £12 a month you get all the same except 3gb data and 750 mins anytime to other networks.
Nice to meet a neighbor here Making games or just playing? Same place, Lithuania, Europe. Probably around 7-8 a month with enough data. 3G is also very fast here up to 25-27Mbps usually. Video calls work from streets with to notch quality. But actually bill may be up to 50-100, as we pay using the phone for services like car parking, paid ads on classifieds web sites, etc. Roaming inside EU is not so expensive, but costs. Luckily this summer it will be eliminated in EU
